Do you think Breast Cancer awareness is over-hyped?

[AliceGregory]

I've seen many people argue that it doesn't get as much attention as other diseases that claim more lives on a regular basis like heart disease and lung cancer (although they are more preventable with one's lifestyle choices).

What are your thoughts?

[CupcakeTheDestroyer]

What a very privileged thing to ask.


Yes, breast cancer does get a good deal of awareness, cancer in general is a terrible thing to suffer through regardless of what part of your body it’s effecting. If you think you’re seeing “too much” awareness advocation for something, maybe that just means you lack empathy for their situation. No one is saying you have to pay money to any foundations you don’t want to, that’s your business. It’s not your business to dictate if something is overdone in cases of bringing awareness to the public eye and letting those effected by this disease know there is a happy, welcoming support network to help them through this time of fear and struggle.

[NamerOfStars]

"Think"? No. I KNOW it. A hell of a lot of lives have been lost thanks to Susan G. Komen and the organizations that sprung up in their wake. The endless hyping of breast cancer is primarily for the purposes of lining their pockets and promoting perpetual female victimhood (despite the fact that one in six breast cancer diagnoses is for a male patient).

Of course, it DOES kill people, and that's awful; I'm not saying treatment and detection research shouldn't be done (especially the latter, since cancer is much more treatable when caught early), but when you watch a loved one fade away and die from a less socially popular cancer, you'll never be able to see one of those stupid colored ribbons without wanting to punch someone.

I don't begrudge the industry the plummeting rate of dollars per fatality from the cancer, since all that money means treatment options are that much better, but there comes a point where IT'S TIME TO MOVE ON.

[Berethor]

Obey the hypno boobies! women don't want to lose their breasts, men don't want that too.

https://allthetropes.org/wiki/I_Have_Boobs_-_You_Must_Obey!

[Staximus]

It's women need to be aware of and not forget about, because if you catch it early they don't have to die

[MrDaveAPSI]

Do you remember when AIDS was all the hype... seems to be cancer now